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Originally Posted by Voodooman
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Seriously though, good question, especially when it comes to Calgary. We have the worst habit of building infrastructure to fill our needs literally today, with no thought to 20-30 years down the road. The LRT system was a perfect example. Ran at 80% of capacity the day it opened, with no flexibility to increase (i.e. the 3 car platforms). I travel on a lot of mass transit systems, and almost every other one has stations with the capacity to add cars to each train as needed.
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Because when we do (airport tunnel) it becomes controversial.